Altran Industries

Innovation Management

Definition

Innovation Management involves the implementation of some major transformation within a company, a process that, in the case of our clients, is often monitored at their Top Management level. Major transformations may involve offerings (products and services), organisation and process and/or innovative strategies and business models.

Altran’s Innovation Management Solution is unique in that it pools the Group’s know-how, expertise and methods throughout the different Industries worldwide.

Our customers' needs

  • To create new sources of growth by leveraging emerging mega trends, exploiting current skills , or adopting an innovative business model
  • To enhance innovation efficiency and competitiveness, sometimes simultaneously
  • To master emerging technological challenges, an increasingly important requirement in a constantly changing world
  • To manage global development activities efficiently; a key challenge that involves striking a balance between geographical and organisational complexity and access to technology, local market insight and cost efficient labor
  • Last but not least, to enhance their innovative capacity and create an innovation-friendly culture

Scope

Topics

  • Offering: supporting our clients in their efforts to transform products and services, i.e. enhanced functionality and/or performance, lower costs, shorter time-to-market.
  • Organisation: transforming organisational systems to improve innovation performance (quality, costs, time).
  • Business model: developing new innovation based strategies and enhancing economic value creation.

Approaches

  • Content-driven: bringing our clients the specific expertise and know-how they lack.
  • Process-driven: using creative methodologies to enhance the client teams’ innovative capacity.
  • Results-driven: supplying tangible deliverables and results to clients, often at top-management level and related to high-impact business issues.

Innovation Management is also defined by the type of method employed: content-based, process-driven or result-oriented.

Interviews

09/08/2011

Emmanuelle

Senior Consultant in Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Sector

09/08/2011

Stéphane

Senior consultant in Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Sector

09/08/2011

Ivan

Consultant in the Telecom Sector

All Consultants' interviews